Born with the name Marcus Hopson, but most commonly known from his stage name Hopsin. Marcus is a hip-hop musician who gained most of his success from uploading music videos onto YouTube. Mostly known after leaving Ruthless-Records where he was miss treated by Eazy-E's Wife. After signing to an...

Jermaine Lamar Cole mostly known as J.Cole has steady been on a come up. Until recently when he dropped a new single off his freshman album, Cole World: Sideline Story named "Work Out". This single featured a piece of Paula Abdul's straight up. This Four minuet song has bounced around...

Single mom driving by these big houses jealous that she isn't a resident
She decides to join everyone else and blame her low income on our president
Instead of blaming it on her own decisions
She begins to shake her head because making twenty-thousand a year wasn't in her intentions...

Braxton always telling stories...
Dear Mr. Bill Collector,
I know I'm behind on a few bills. You have to understand that my husband was killed. Plus I have a daughter in college, so can you please stop calling. Because I have a baby to take of that's crying and my mothers dying.
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Who classifies a man to not show emotion? Honestly I stare at this girls number in my phone. I laugh like, "Friend zone much?" Then I say nah, nah, nah. I don't freaking like this girl she's just a friend! I shove it down even know I mentally have a lot of feelings for a women th...

We sit here talking about what the Illumunati has done but then we put them in office and on our Ipod's. Prey for the uneducated humans that are worshiping politicians as if they're going to give them a job and put food on the table. America tells the government they don't want the de...

Every morning my mom would say, "if a white asks you to do something you do it." I reply, "yes ma'am." she hands me my lunch. I walked to school; it was about a mile down the street. I lived in a small town and I was the only colored person in school. I wasn't a racist,...

We dream picket fences
but instead we make picket signs
fights and protest break out
now they checking your vital sings
graph lines go straight,
now your mother is crying
people with heart speak for what they know
but do you think it's worth dying?
Or are you just a follower?
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This one guy told me that he was, going to kill him self if he got called gay again that's very scary
One of the only friends I have is going to leave school cause I'm her only friend that's very scary
I know this guy that spends four-hundred dollars on drugs every week that very ...

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